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Ambra Senatore

Choreographer and performer Ambra Senatore was born in Turin in 1976. She trained with different choreographers. She then worked with Jean-Claude Gallotta, Giorgio Rossi, Raffaella Giordano, Georges Lavaudant (Théâtre de l’Odéon, Paris), Roberto Castello, Antonio Tagliarini. Alongside her work as a performer, she began to create pieces in collaboration with other authors in 1998 with Reminda-remoda, A po’io a po’tu (1999) Silenzio (2002). Following his PhD on contemporary dance (2004), she teaches dance history at the University of Milan.

Between 2004 and 2009, Ambra Senatore continued his choreographic research she performs solos : EDA- solo, Merce, InformazioniUtili, Altro piccolo progetto domestico, Maglie and starts to play regularly in France, including the Festival of Avignon.

She will then create groups pieces : Passo (2010), A Posto (2011) and John (2012). In 2012, she founded the EDA company based in Besançon. In 2013, she choreographed and directed Nos amours bêtes, young piece public from Fabrice Melquiot text. Her latest creations are Aringa Rossa (2014), the solo In Piccolo (2014) and the series of performances Petites Briques (2015).

Between dance, theater and visual art, his work explores the boundaries between action and reality, on what belongs to the stage and what is outside. Ambra Senatore works on the dynamics of movement danced fed theatricality of elements, actions and daily gestures, exploring the construction of a drama that requires action and the presence of bodies.

Author of a book on the Italian contemporary dance (UTET editions, Torino, 2007), Ambra Senatore is since 1 January 2016, the new director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes.